Bangladesh’s famous actress Meher Afroz Shaon has been arrested by the police on charges of treason in Dhaka. Afroz is the wife of Bangladesh’s famous writer Humayun Ahmed. According to local media, Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested the actress from Dhanmandi area of ​​the capital on Thursday evening. If we look at the Facebook page of Afroz, he openly criticized the Mohammad Yunus rule and especially his press advisor.
Additional Commissioner of Police Rezaul Karim Malik, Additional Detective Branch, told Dhaka Tribune that he was detained in Dhanmandi on Thursday night. He is accused of treason and is being questioned. Reports suggest that she was criticizing the interim government of Bangladesh led by Mohammad Yunus. Meher Afroz Shaon is not only a famous actress of Bangladesh, but she is also a director, dancer and playback singer. Meher received the Best Female Singer’s Bangladesh National Film Award for the film ‘Krishnopokkho’ in 2016.
Meher comes from political family
Meher, who came from the political family, was arrested a few hours after his ancestral house was attacked and set on fire in Jamalpur. According to local media reports, students and local residents set fire to their ancestral house near Norundi railway station in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila around 6 pm on Thursday. The house was of his father Engineer Mohammad Ali, who sought nomination from Awami League in the last national election. Her mother Begum Tehura Ali completed two terms in Parliament from reserved women’s seat. The actress also contested from the reserved parliamentary seat in the last election as a candidate for Awami League.
The mob also set fire to Sheikh Hasina’s father’s house
Let me tell you that this incident has come to light after an incident in Dhaka, where the mob on Wednesday vandalized the house of Sheikh Mujiburham, the founder leader of Bangladesh and father of the overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and set fire to fire. The crowd gathered with bulldozers in Dhanmandi 32 and threatened to drop the house. Instead, they broke the main gate and set the property on fire. Hamalavars described the house as a symbol of dictatorship and said that they want to eradicate the traces of Mujibism in the country. The protesters raised slogans against Sheikh Hasina, who left Bangladesh and moved to India after protests against their government on August 5 last year.